The Making of the Golden Bough: The Origins and Growth of an Argument

by: Fraser, R.

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A study of the making of "The Golden Bough" of which the first volume appeared in 1890, and the twelfth and last in 1915. It is a vast and comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, offering the thesis that man progresses from magical through religious to scientific thought.

Diana's mirror; the ebbing tide; a meeting of minds; the king is dead; the sacred and the taboo; totems and totem feasts; sacrifice as eucharist; sacrifice as magic; the progress of the mind; the man of sorrows; the theatre of myth; the flutes of Tammuz; "Sexta Luna"; the dying sun.

xii, 240 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
 

The Making of the Golden Bough: The Origins and Growth of an Argument

by: Fraser, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780333496312 / 978-0-333-49631-2
• ISBN-03: 0333496310 / 0-333-49631-0
• Macmillan and Co., London, 1990

Price: 52,24 EURO

1 copy in stock